Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Once it's perfected I leave it well alone, unless I fit a component that materially affect it.
How often do you tweak or change your fit?
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Tojo
Über Member
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Why did you not include the option NEVER as once it right it's feckin right ( sorry had t get the feck in somewhere as Frank Kelly died yesterday)....
OP
OP
2IT
Everything and everyone suffers in comparisons.
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Why did you not include the option NEVER as once it right it's feckin right ( sorry had t get the feck in somewhere as Frank Kelly died yesterday)....
Well I could have; yet, I thought who doesn't make some adjustment to the bike they buy or as their height or flexibility changes? Never is an absolute and wouldn't a person have to outlive that answer? Just like Always is not there.
How did you answer given the choices?
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
I'm reasonably happy with the comfort aspect . Whatever I might do, I very much doubt it'll go any faster so I leave it well alone. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
400bhp
Guru
They have all been professionally fitted.
Drago
Legendary Member
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I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
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It will be a struggle to remember but I will try....
Hybrid was bought in 2010 and I think the Charge Spoon saddle was fitted towards the end of 2011, so that was the last tweak to that bike's fit.
Road bike bought in 2011 and after about 6-9 months decided that the stem needed flipping to raise the bars a bit. That has been untouched since.
My old 1994 MTB got a complete rebuild at the end of 2013 with new handle bars, stem and saddle and after the initial set-up tweaks hasn't been altered again.
Either I am very lucky, very skilled or very physically adaptable because I have found that I set a bike up by eye and it is then either right or might need a slight tweak and then it is good to go. The only exception to this was my road bike where I realised the bars were too low for me and this was compressing my stomach and also restricting my ability to breath properly. Flipping the stem made all the difference.
IMO it isn't rocket science and I have never had a professional bike fit or read/applied a bike fit guide. My guiding principles are:
Hybrid was bought in 2010 and I think the Charge Spoon saddle was fitted towards the end of 2011, so that was the last tweak to that bike's fit.
Road bike bought in 2011 and after about 6-9 months decided that the stem needed flipping to raise the bars a bit. That has been untouched since.
My old 1994 MTB got a complete rebuild at the end of 2013 with new handle bars, stem and saddle and after the initial set-up tweaks hasn't been altered again.
Either I am very lucky, very skilled or very physically adaptable because I have found that I set a bike up by eye and it is then either right or might need a slight tweak and then it is good to go. The only exception to this was my road bike where I realised the bars were too low for me and this was compressing my stomach and also restricting my ability to breath properly. Flipping the stem made all the difference.
IMO it isn't rocket science and I have never had a professional bike fit or read/applied a bike fit guide. My guiding principles are:
- Is my leg almost straight at the bottom of the pedal stroke
- Does it look right
- Am I comfortable
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
Never. Got it right when I first started riding and haven't changed it since in 30 years.
bonsaibilly
Guest
It doesn't necessarily follow.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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I used to fiddle with my fit all the time as i didnt feel just right, with some help i got it right and now i dont fiddle with it , i have the measurements written down and i wouldnt change it unless i needed to .
400bhp
Guru
It does if the fit is done correctly.
bonsaibilly
Guest
It still doesn't but I can see this is a pointless discussion anyway.
BikeCurious
Über Member
Even after having the same bike for 6 years I'm still making adjustments in search of that elusive perfect fit. I'm not sure I'll ever find it.
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
If after 6 years you still can't make it fit, then is there not the teensiest possibility that it's simply the wrong bike for you?
Almost 50 years since the picture in my avatar, yet I still make changes from time to time. My body changes, bones have been broken, new technology comes out and there is a continuous search to shave a few seconds off my TT times. Would be wrong to keep "fiddling" without a purpose, but intelligent changes are healthy. Have heard that pros go into wind tunnels and "fiddle" with their positions.
